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The 91 Parts of the Earth

Introduction

The price of initiation is to be ceaselessly surprised; to live in a world

where the only certainty is that what you believe to be Truth, believe to be

real, even what you believe to be yourself will be changed in ways that you

cannot anticipate. No matter how great our knowledge and experience, it

is always surrounded by the infinite darkness of the unknown; and out of

that darkness things can come at any moment to transform our world.

One must advance towards the darkness without fear. Not because there

is nothing to fear; rather because fear forces the unknown into its own

ugly shape, a shape that we all know too well. Nothing truly new can come

into our consciousness while fear dominates. Deny fear its power, deny it

any right to control you, and the magickal universe becomes a place of

endlessly unfolding wonders. Embrace the unknown and it will reward you

by opening up its unspeakable, astonishing variety.

More than most people, I hunger after that variety; hunger for it as

intensely as an adolescent boy hungers for sex. That which is routine, that

which is known, that which is familiar hold no attraction for me; I find them

oppressive. The settled territories of the magickal world, I leave to others;

only in pushing into the unknown am I fulfilled.

The Enochian magick provides a perfect tool for one such as I. Its depth

appears to be infinite; understand one level of its reality, and a new one

with different properties opens immediately. A lifetime of work cannot

exhaust its potential.

But penetrating its depths can be difficult, for an unusual reason. That is

that the Enochian entities are too cooperative. They strive always to

conform their actions to the will of the magician. This means that if the

magician enters into their realm with specific expectations, they will seek

to fulfill those expectations, even if it means overlaying a true picture of

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and certain other information. The purpose of the books, as told to Dee,

was to provide him with a means of magickally influencing the

governments of various countries. (This stated purpose may have been a

consequence of Dee's own expectations; he was greatly intent on having

such a tool.)Each Part is a region of the Earth as defined by God; each corresponds to

a particular geographic/political locale in the world as it was known in

16th-Century England. (As the reader will see, in these visions some of the

Parts are attributed to regions then unknown.) Additionally, the Parts have

a "vertical" or hierarchic component to their natures, because they are

connected in groups of three with the Aethyrs, which are said to surround

the Earth in onion-like layers.

It should be emphasized that these Parts are not "governors of theAethyrs", as has been mistakenly said by some writers. The name of the

Part does not invoke a specific being, but only a certain locale of the

Enochian universe, with its particular qualities. Nor does the Part in any

way "rule" the Aethyr of which it is a portion. One might view the

relationship between Parts and Aethyrs as being similar to the relationship

between the decanates of the zodiac and the signs of which they are a

section. The Voice of the Part is not the Part itself, but one of the

unnamed ministers who dwells therein.Every part is governed by one of twelve "Zodiacal Kings", who is

associated with one of the Tribes of Israel. The angels did not give Dee an

explicit listing of their zodiacal attributes; he was told to derive it from the

related tribe. Apparently he never did so. In these visions, the following

system of attributes was used, which differs from both Agrippa system

with which Dee was familiar, and the G.D. system.

Zodiac sign Zodiacal King Tribe of Israel

Aries Alpudus Isacarah

Taurus Hononol Iehudah

Gemini Zarzilg Nephthalim

Cancer Gebabal Asseir

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Leo Olpaged Dan

Virgo Cadaamp Benjamin

Libra Zarnaah Manasse

Scorpio Arfaolg EphraimSagittarius Lavavot Gad

Capricorn Zurchol Simeon

Aquarius Ziracah Ruben

Pisces Zinggen Zabulon

The logic of this system is based on the disposition of the Tribes depicted

in Numbers 2, combined with Dee's diagram of that disposition. There are

several possible systems that could be derived from these sources; theone actually used was chosen by divination after the major possibilities

were assessed. In any case, it is apparent from the visions obtained so far

that the angels feel free to ignore these attributes whenever necessary.

Some of the visions are consistent with their attribute; others show it only

as a minor factor, and others yet are entirely at odds with it.

The method of invocation was changed during the course of the visions. In

the early Parts, I deliberately kept things as simple as possible. I would

vibrate the Call of the Aethyr two or three times, then vibrate the name ofthe Zodiacal King, the Part, and the Aethyr while drawing the Part's sigil in

the air before me. I would then enter the astral world and see whatever

there was to see.

Later I decided that it would be better to have a definite "anchor" for the

vision on the astral plane, in order to focus the energies. For each vision I

prepared a magickal circle on the astral, in a form resembling a talisman

for the Part. In the border of the circle, on the south side, the name of the

Zodiacal King was written. On the north side, the name of the Aethyr. Inthe middle, the name of the Part, its sigil, and the number of its resident

ministers was written. All these were oriented so that they would be

upright to a person facing south. I would vibrate the Call of the Aethyr,

then go into the astral circle to vibrate the various names. Typically, the

response to the invocation would begin with the center of the circle

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becoming transparent, to reveal an aerial view of some region of the

Earth.

Following my usual practice, the visions were recorded while they were

occurring. The blank slate-blue wall behind my computer monitor served

as my "scrying crystal"; I would watch events unfold in the astral spaceuntil they stopped changing for a moment, then write down what I saw.

Where the Voice of the Part was speaking, I simply typed as it spoke. The

record that follows is exactly what was recorded at the time; it has not

been edited or changed in any way, except to correct minor typing errors.

The "seer's comments" that follow every record were written immediately

after the end of the vision.

Readers will note that the visions consistently use a non-standard version

of the Tree of Life, the "restored" Tree devised by Frater Achad. This Treeis used simply because it is the one on which I founded my cabalistic

work; its placement of the paths makes more sense to my

astrologically-oriented mind than does the more generally-accepted

version. It should not be construed as evidence that Achad's is the "true"

Tree, or that the standard version is false. Any magician exploring these

Parts will no doubt find the presentations made in terms of his own

symbol-system; it is one aspect of the angels' cooperative nature.

The First Document for the 91 Parts of the Earth

Occodon, Part 1 of 91, 1st of LIL. Zodiacal king: Zarzilg Mundane

association: Egypt.

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I recited the Call of the Aethyrs for LIL, and invoked the part named

OCCODON, and its 7209 resident ministers, by the power of the zodiacal

king Zarzilg. At first the response was very faint, barely perceptible. I

repeated the invocation of the various names, and it increased slightly but

still did not seem inclined to generate any sort of image.Thinking of images that might ground and manifest this power, a picture of

the pyramids of Giza suddenly came into my vision with power and

certainty. It was a view from the west, with Cairo hidden in the valley

behind them, and the sphinx invisible somewhere beyond the left edge of

the view. The green of the Nile cannot be seen; there is nothing but sand.

A voice spoke:

"In ancient times it was said that the world began out of the division of the

Waters; and so it was. The primal waters divided out of themselves aportion of themselves, a reflection; these became the 'waters below' as

the primal waters, taking on a role in relation to them, became the 'waters

above'.

"Thus was born the essential division of finite existence; and within that

first division did divisions multiply. Each 'above' had its 'below'; each 'left'

had its 'right'; each 'behind' had its 'before'. And each division generated

more divisions, until the world was shattered into a myriad of parts, each

unique, each without comparison to the others, yet meaningless exceptwhen in relation to them.

"Thus also, these parts of the Earth which you explore begin not with unity,

but with division; there is nothing but division within them, division and

perpetual change. For that which is below and that which is above are

confounded in the curse of god; intermixed, intertwined until none can

know which is the greater and which the true lesser."

A flashing image here of the universe as a multitude of independent

particles, with energies flashing between them. Some of these "particles"appeared as great as planets or stars, others more minute than the

smallest quark, and with every range in between. The energies moved in

every direction, from small to large, large to small, and back and forth

among the middle sizes. It seemed that a tiny particle was just as capable

of influencing one of the "greater" particles as those larger were of

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influencing it; there was no clear hierarchy among them.

Now the pyramid image returns, and my viewpoint moves back away from

it. A single pyramid remains visible, and it becomes apparent that the

landscape in which it sits is a small chunk out of the Earth's surface,

floating free in space. Magritte could have easily painted this scene.Above the chunk of Earth a starry night-sky is visible, color-tinged white

pinpoints on a deep blue background. But below the Earth there is nothing

but a blackness, entirely without perceptible features. A blackness which

is utterly negative, which does not absorb the finite into itself (as does the

great sea of the Supernals, and the greater sea of which it is the

reflection) but which cancels it, makes it not to be by saying "no" to all its

characteristics.

For a moment a tremendous stress builds between the sky and the lowerblackness. An electric current builds between them, and suddenly

becomes visible as twin lightning bolts vibrating in place between the sky

and the darkness. After a moment the chunk of Earth vanishes from the

middle of the scene, and for a moment the planes of sky and darkness

and the twin bolts become the glyph of Gemini. Then the glyph transforms

itself into a view of Egypt seen from orbit. The top bar of the glyph

becomes the shore of Lake Victoria; the lower bar becomes the shore of

the Mediterranean Sea; and the twin pillars or bolts become the sandywastes that border the Nile Valley on either side.

"Thus is the world the center of division; finite life and existence can have

their day only within the bounds of these great divisions of power, in the

central area where all the opposites mix in varied proportions. Move too

far towards the upper waters, and one returns to them, sacrificing finite

existence for the greater; move too far towards the lower waters and one

dissolves in their negation, becomes not. Move too far towards any

horizontal extreme between them and one perishes in the dry death offalse singularity.

"And thus also is this division reflected in the Call of the Aethyrs, which has

been called the Curse of God; for there is no center within the world, no

point where one may become balanced and still without end. No point can

remain balanced, for the balance is ever changing, ever moving; and the

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signs. The characteristics presented are typical of Gemini, but raised to

an archetypal level.

Egypt, the mundane region governed by Occodon, is used as a metaphor

for the Earth, the human being, and human society, as they are affected

by the power in the Call of the Aethyrs. The four-sided pyramids mightrepresent the seemingly-ordered worlds of human experience, resting on a

foundation of chaos -- the ever-shifting particles of the desert sands.

Pascomb, Part 2 of 91, 2nd of LIL. Zodiacal King: Zinggen. Ministers:

2360. Mundane association: Syria

7/15/1994 2:40 p.m.

I invoked PASCOMB by the power of Zinggen and the Aethyr LIL, calling

upon the 2360 ministers who dwell there to come and present its nature.

At first there was only a sense of a very strange energy. A sort of

quintessence of sundering, without any object. As if an act of ripping

something apart had been separated from the things being ripped and

made into a spiritual ideal.

A voice said:

"A mighty tearing suffuses the universe, rending each thing from its

opposite. That which is above and that which is below are sundered from

one another; that which is to the right is sundered from that which is to the

left; that which is before is sundered from that which is behind.

"And all things are brought to one level; each thing above is brought down,

each thing below is raised up; that which is before and behind, to the left

and to the right, are brought to the center and inextricably mixed.

"And out of that mixture are new dualities formed. None higher or lower

than the others; there is no ranking here. Observe:"

There came before me the image of the sign of Gemini seen in the last

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vision, with its straight side pillars and the curved top and bottom bars. It

underwent a transformation: the portions of the bars between the two

pillars broke away from the parts outside; those outer parts blended into

the pillars. Gradually the two center parts of the bars moved towards the

center of the figure; as they did so, the parts of the pillars they passedceased to be straight and became smoothly curved towards the outside.

The bars met and merged together into one longer bar, and the sign of

Gemini was transformed into the sign of Pisces.

"Thus it is with these parts of the Aethyrs, which God has made into parts

of the Earth. For she is not a place of hierarchies, but a [spherical]

surface; and upon that surface are the powers arrayed in their might. That

which is shown as various spheres in Dee's diagram is not truly so. The

parts are dispersed about her surface like the colors about the surface ofa soap bubble; and like those colors, they are constantly shifting,

changing their places. At one moment one might cover a great territory,

only to be practically overthrown in the next by its neighbors."

(As the above was said, it was impressed on me in an instant that all the

variations of the Earth's surface were minute and indistinguishable with

respect to the world's size. The highest mountains and deepest ocean

trenches vary less than one part in sixteen hundred of the world's

diameter. In relation to its size, the variations in the Earth's surface are nomore significant than the variations in thickness that cause the color shifts

of the soap bubble. Why this should be emphasized, I don't know; perhaps

I missed something.)

Now I saw an image of the world with the Aethyrs arrayed about it in

concentric spheres. Again there came the sundering force that opened the

vision, and all these spheres were broken into pieces. The pieces tumbled

down towards the Earth, and as they hit the surface they slid over and

around each other until none of them was above any other. Gradually theyexpanded and shifted until they covered the entire surface.

Each of these pieces seemed to be both a sort of energy and a living

liquid at the same time. I could distinguish them by their differing shades

and hues, each unique. Now they seemed to be at war with each other;

the effect was of a bunch of brightly colored slime molds fighting for

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territory. Each pushed against its neighbors, seeking to gain more ground

for itself. One might lose ground for a time, but was never completely

extinguished; if all its territory in one place was taken by its neighbors, it

simply sprang up again in another place where the pressure was low.

And it seemed to me that each of these living "parts" was in fact the causeof some idea that lives in the minds of men, or rather of those shared

perceptions and ideals that make up the identity of a nation or a group.

Because each part is unique in its essence, it follows that all groups must

be in conflict with each other at one time or another. Harmony is the result

of likeness or complementarity of nature; where likeness does not exist,

there must be friction and conflict. Thus the idea of complete unity among

nations is doomed to fail, as is the unity or harmony between groups

within nations. If a certain type of belief or government is overthrown in acertain part of the Earth's population, it will simply appear again in another

part, or as a minority belief within a particular culture.

The voice said: "Thou hast grasped it. Thus it was said to Dee that these

parts governed the governments of the Earth, and that one could

manipulate those governments through the use of the power of the

corresponding part. It extends through all levels of organization within the

world; since all individuals are unique, they must at sometimes be in

conflict with their neighbors. And thus it was said in the Thelemic bookthat Horus, god of War, is the ruler of this world.

"We would emphasize again that the parts of the Earth, and the Aethyrs

from which they spring, are notexpressions of the unity of existence, but

of the aspect of discord. In this they are the complement, the necessary

balance to the divine and angelic Names derived from the Great Table by

orderly means. Those names and hierarchies show the unity aspect, the

merging of the discord of events into the singleness of spirit. Here we

deal with the shattering of that unity, with its expression in theunspeakable variety of unique events taking place in the world at any

moment.

"Now, in order to continue, we would have you wait for an hour or so, and

relax. For there is more to see, but the time is not quite right. Return again

today.

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7/16/1994 8:04 p.m.

(I did not return to the vision until now because the timing felt wrong.)

I again recited the Call for LIL and invoked PASCOMB. After a few minutes

the force of the Part came strongly. The Voice continued.

"Now, you have grasped the connection between the power of these Partsand the actions of government. Truly, the world is in a constant state of

war, from the standpoint of the Aethyrs. And the most active, violent of

those wars at present take place not upon the physical plane, but upon

the planes of emotion and reason, For each Idea has power within these

worlds, and any Idea which is supported at its core by the creative power

of God (as most are) cannot be eradicated wholly from the world.

"Even should it be wholly washed away from the minds of all living beings,

it would arise again spontaneously. For it requires not the power of men tomaintain its existence; its has an energy separate from their recognition

and support. Should it be washed away, then at some future moment,

some man or woman would (through natural affinity) touch its power with

their mind, and it would instantly become real within the world again.

"This war is perpetual, and the only thing that changes its character are

the slow changes in the consciousness of God, as its creative plan

evolves over time. At any given point in time, some ideas are emphasized

by these changes and others de-emphasized. Thus in the previous age didsocial ideas take an extreme hierarchical form with those on the bottom

serving those on top, while in this present age are social ideas more

oriented towards the masses of men and their needs.

"But the dominance of one sort of ideal does not eliminate the others; they

remain always, and insinuate themselves into the functioning of society

and of life in the details of activity where they cannot gain dominance in

the overall rulership. And if that dominance of an ideal should fail, then

others -- temporarily suppressed -- regain their prior place. Thus therapidity with which the Soviet Union devolved into its cultural

predecessors; the local cultures had not been absorbed by the ideal, but

only overlaid, partially smothered by it.

"And the war is reflected even in the functioning of the living things of the

world. For each type of animal and each type of plant is at war with those

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upon which it feeds, even as it is dependent upon them. And each unique

being fights against its neighbors for its share of the available resources.

Trees wage slow, years-long battles against each other; lesser plants feed

upon the detritus of that war, and wage their smaller wars beneath. And

so on."Never shall this conflict be done, no, not even should the Kingdom of

Heaven come. For it is the nature of the third of the three Great Aspects

of God's creation (of which the body, emotions, and mind are a part) that

every particle and composite being within the world shall respond uniquely

to the power of God's creative will. Where the proper goal of each is

unique [i.e., it's "true will" under the power of the divine] then conflict

inevitably arises.

(On an unspoken level, it was also mentioned that unity lies only in theSecond and First divine aspects, those of Love and Will (or Being), both of

which are entirely spiritual in nature, and come into the manifest world only

through the action of initiated sapients.)

"There is no unity within the manifest world, nor shall there ever be. Those

who seek to impose such a unity, through law or morals or "correct

behavior" are doomed to failure. God wishes it so; were the manifest world

one in all ways then it would no longer be a fit material for His creative

activity, and for the creations of those lesser beings who dwell within it.Creation is change, and change always brings conflict.

"Now we have said enough and would end here, if you will."

I said I had no questions that had not already been answered in the

nonverbal subtext of the presentation. I thanked those who spoke, and

ended the vision.

Valgars, Part 3 of 91, 3rd of LIL. Zodiacal King: Alpudus. Ministers: 5362.

Mundane association: Mesopotamia.

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7/19/1994 1:10 p.m.

Recited the Call for LIL and invoked VALGARS by the power of the zodiacal

king Alpudus.

The vision opened with an image of the glyph of Pisces as in the previous

vision. The glyph was colored a deep ocean blue. Immediately thecrossbar of the glyph broke in two places, close to the curves. The

remaining part of the bar contracted to a dot between the two curves, the

parts of the bar still connected to the curves were absorbed into them.

The two curves rotated about their centers so that their lower ends came

together. For a moment a half-moon seemed to grow off of the top of the

right-hand curve, so that the whole figure seemed like an Enochian letter

"B". The dot between the curves became a diamond. But the half-moon

quickly disappeared and the figure turned blood-red, becoming the glyphof Aries.

The glyph tilted away from me and moved away at the same time. From

below an image of the Earth came into view, and the glyph descended,

coming to rest with its two arms conjunct with the Euphrates and Tigris

rivers. The dot between the arms marked the location of Baghdad --

actually slightly north and west of there; perhaps ancient Babylon. The

point where the arms met did not quite touch the Persian Gulf; it ended in

the marshes where the two rivers meet.The view descended towards the Earth, and I saw that it was indeed

Babylon that was depicted. The region surrounding the city was green with

growing crops and grassland; not the dry waste of current-day Iraq.

Across the river to the west I could see forested hills.

The city was enclosed in a long wall, save for a short stretch of the river

bank near the center of one wall. This gap did not seem to be deliberate,

but rather the result of erosion undermining the wall. Within there seemed

to be a smaller area with high walls as well; perhaps the area of thepalace and main temples.

Now the viewpoint rotated around the city to the eastern gate. A long

thoroughfare extended west to an unfinished ziggurat. I saw people

moving down the avenue towards me; they passed through the gate and

dispersed to the four directions.

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The Voice spoke:

"The tower you see is of course the so-called Tower of Babel. And the

people are dispersing as was said in the biblical myth. But it was not the

hand of God which produced this effect, except indirectly, through the

power of the Part governing this region. The symbolism of the Tower is ofcourse the symbolism of Mars, ruler of Aries. And it is the characteristics

of the sign and its ruler that are here represented in one aspect.

"You know of course that Aries represents the initial outpouring of force

that begins any project, any work of creativity. It is the force that

overcomes the inertia of matter and moves it into a different state. But

this force is short of duration; it gives out quickly, burns itself up. If the

work of creation were to continue, it would need to be imbued with the

longer-lasting force of Habit or Custom, which maintain the new state. Butthat is to be seen elsewhere, not here.

"What is shown here is the illusory unity provided by the imposition of

force upon disparate, chaotic elements each having their own unique

nature. Such unity never lasts; as soon as the force is exhausted, or

directed towards a different goal, then it dissolves into its initial elements

again. This is as we said in the previous Part, here manifested in its

actuality.

"The various cities of the lands between the two rivers at times tried toimpose their rule on their surroundings by force. Their rulers sensed in

their minds the nature of the power of this Part, and attempted to manifest

it. But such rulership was not natural to the area, was imposed upon a

pre-existing "culture" in which smaller specialized settlements coexisted in

a complex network of trade.

"In this earlier culture, the specializations of each town depended upon the

resources available in their area. One being close to clay deposits would

engage in the manufacture of pots and bowls. Another having flint wouldmake cutting and digging tools. Yet another might have timber, or

medicinal plants, fertile grain-growing lands, or grasslands for cattle. Each

of these would make the most of its local resources and trade along the

network for the other items they needed.

"This is not unlike the current-day state of the world economy, though in

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miniature. And the failure of the imposed rulerships of the great cities

gives a lesson that might be learned today.

"The early centralized rulerships were initially accepted for the same

reason that every government since has been accepted. It seemed

advantageous to the people of the towns to give over a portion of theirproduction in exchange for protection from the larger losses to criminals

and raiders along the trade routes. But once the principle of centralized

rule was accepted, things rapidly went downhill.

"The rulers must draw more and more on the productivity of the towns in

order to widen their rule. The wider the borders of the kingdom, the larger

the portion of production that must be spent on defense and internal

regulation. This is simple geometry. Eventually the point of diminishing

returns is passed; the rulers can no longer take enough resources out ofthe economy to maintain their rule. The hardship for those from whom it is

taken increases until they are no longer willing to support the "national"

government, and the system collapses.

"In the Babel incident, it is this failure of resources that is the true cause of

the disruption. The craftsmen who were building the tower were drawn

from many peoples in the area, each of them with their own customs and

variation on the regional speech. When the rulers could no longer pay for

their services, they perceived this as a sign of divine disfavor; theirconfidence in the communal project was lost, ethnic tensions increased,

and finally they left to return to their home towns.

"This is the failure of every government that seeks to rule by force, from

ancient Uruk and Ur to the present day. In those earlier cases, the

process was sometimes advanced by deterioration of the climate, or --

more commonly -- by the failure of crops upon which the city-dwellers were

dependent.

"The region of the Earth governed by Valgars shows this tendency withparticular emphasis. One after another came conquering rulers; many of

them inspired by the imaginary "glory" of the memory of their

predecessors. The early cities, the Babylonians, Assyrians, the Baghdad

of ancient times and the present, all have sought to rule and each has

fallen back into chaos when their power was no longer sufficient to the

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task. Over and over the same story is replayed. Even now, the ruler of Iraq

perceives himself as the incarnation of an ancient Assyrian ruler, dazzled

by the vision of restoring ancient glories even as his nation is rent asunder

around him.

"Like the flow of the two great rivers, the power of this Part seems mightyin its beginning and continuation, but in the end it collapses into chaos; as

the two rivers become lost in the great marshes of their combined delta.

When their waters finally reach the sea, they get there through a myriad of

tortuous channels, not in the great unified flow that their beginnings

promised. And so it ends, always.

"Now we would like for you to continue with these visions; it seems to us

that you would be doing a service thereby. But be not concerned if there

be interruptions, hiatuses in the work. For this is necessarily a long-termproject, and it is certain that other tasks and opportunities will come

between at times. Do what thou will, when thou will, and we will be

accessible to you. We are done, for today."

I thanked the Voice for its presentation, and ended the vision.

Seer's comments:

This completes the Parts attributed to LIL. It is too early to speculate on

the complete course to be presented, but some obvious connections can

be made between these three parts.First, all three deal in some way with the chaos or disorder that precedes

the initiation of a creative act -- and which may well be stimulated by the

first inflow of creative force. There is an increasing constraint upon the

unorganized materia as the visions progress: Occodon defines outer

boundaries, Pascomb organizes the content of those boundaries into

conflicting elements, Valgars shows the first attempts to bring the materia

into conformance with a creative will.

Second, each vision deals with a region that is (loosely speaking) boundedby water on two sides. Egypt by Lake Victoria and the Mediterranean Sea,

Syria (mundane equivalent of Pascomb) by the Euphrates and Jordan, and

Mesopotamia by the Euphrates and Tigris. The repetitive occurrence of

opposed curves in the astrological glyphs is probably connected with this.

I get the sense that the "failure of government" theme of the three visions

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is a reflection of the fall from unity embodied in the Call of the Aethyrs.

Were we taking the Parts in the reverse sequence, (as Crowley did with

the Aethyrs themselves) it may be that these parts would show the final

return to unity in the divine.

The presence of Babylon in the third vision is odd, since Babylon has itsown Part later on in the series (number 80, Mathula). The region named

Mesopotamia in Liber Scientia is called Upper Mesopotamia today. I

suspect that whatever beings were the Voice of this vision were simply

using it as a convenient substitute for the city of Sargon the Great, who

created the first empire with a true centralized government in upper

Mesopotamia circa 2500 BC, and whose empire ended 160 years later in

much the way described. The latter name was apparently buried too deep

in the silt of my unconscious mind to be dredged up on short notice; itpopped into awareness about fifteen minutes after the vision ended.

Dongnis or Doagnis, part of ARN. Zodiacal King: Zarnaah Servitors: 3636

Equivalent to Cappadocia in Liber Scientia.

August 24, 1994 circa 2:00 p.m.

Everything is dark, dark. And in the center is a deeper darkness, that feels

like a circular sinkhole in the fabric of the space, a cylinder of emptiness in

the midst of things.

Now it seems as if this cylinder is becoming lit from some source inside it.

Lines of light trace a rectilinear grid over its inner surface, and it becomes

filled with a light like daylight. It begins to rotate on its long axis.

Simultaneously, my viewpoint rotates about it in a horizontal plane so that I

am seeing its length from an outside point perpendicular to the axis and

equidistant from its ends. Its rotation is such that the upper side is rolling

away from my viewpoint.

I can still see the grid inside it, vaguely through its surface. The grid

becomes clearer, and begins to shine from the outside as well. The

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shining potions become raised in relief against the surface, and the whole

takes on a sense of solidity.

Suddenly the cylinder begins to move away from me rapidly. It leaves

behind an imprint of its shining lines, like the cylindrical seals used by

ancients governors. It seems to be creating the surface it is imprinting asit rolls along. The cylinder recedes into the distance and vanishes.

The long, paper-thin surface it left behind now begins to curl upwards at

the sides. The long sides come together, but in such a way that the

grid-lines at right angles to its length are offset by one line at their meeting

point. The new cylinder thus formed has straight lines along its length; the

cross-lines, which were rectilinear in the original cylinder, now form

several helices around it, due to the offset. Those parts of the "surface"

that were not imprinted now dissolve, leaving a cylindrical net of glowinglines.

This process propagates itself along the length of the surface until any

still-unconnected parts are lost in the distance. Nothing else happens for a

few minutes.

While all this was happening, I got a vague impression that the helical net

is a representation of the universe -- no, specifically of the solar system.

Each of the helices represents a planet's course through space, while the

straight lines represent the course of the system as a whole. And bycorrespondence, it also represents the psyche and experience of man,

wherein events are cyclic but progress forward in time.

Now a voice said, "How else shall chaos be tamd? How else shall the

disorder of creations' energies be brought into order? How else shall

balance be attained? Is it not said, 'Her course let it run with the heavens,

and as a handmaid let her serve them'?

"Change cannot be stopped or frozen; that way lies the grave, and the end

of things. Yet it can be diverted, and set to run along a limited set ofpaths; paths which lead, in the end, to the achievement of the creator's

purpose.

"Here in this region, the powers previously shown, the powers of creative

energy unleashed within the Earth, are for the first time brought into

ordering, so that the dynamic changes that take place in the world, by the

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will of god, shall all be (in the long run) of benefit to his purpose.

"Yet is this ordering hidden from the minds of men, and the lesser beings

who inhabit the earth; they see only the surface of remaining disorder, the

clashing of powers as they compete for influence over events. Thus is it

said 'Confound the understanding of her with darkness'."Now let us move away from this for a time, for this is a profound mystery,

and not to be revealed in its entirety. By other means might we know more

of the action here. Let the 3636 ministers who dwell herein make

themselves known."

A multitude of beings appeared. Most of them were dressed in judicial

robes, some with the white wigs of English tradition. All carried

implements in their hands; some a gavel, others a scale, others yet a

book of laws. And among them was one who carried about him the imageof the Six of Pentacles in the Rider deck; this one projected this image so

strongly that the rest were hidden.

The voice said, "This card is called 'Material Success', and yet the image

shows not a man among his wealth, as would be the case for that

meaning, but a man standing with his head above the other people,

carrying a set of balances raised in the air above their line of sight, while

with his other hand he distributes gold to the lowly, some to one, more to

another, none to others."Thus it symbolizes the function of this region; events conform to a

balance on a high level, yet that which comes into the manifest world

(represented by the kneeling figures) is of a seemingly random and

capricious nature. And he who acts within those higher levels knows of the

balance, yet cannot act within the world in a purely balanced manner. Thus

he seems unfair, even cruel, to those who know not the God of Justice

and his works and purpose. They unconsciously recognize his inner

wealth, and view him with fear, and envy, and resentment, and with theurge to spoil. Thus does his balance evoke imbalance.

"So also with the ministers of Doagnis; they are concerned not with the

justice of their acts as seen by the uninitiated, or by the lesser creatures

of Earth. They act only to set god's limitations upon the chaos of his

creative energies, to channel the Timeless according to the dictates of

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Time. For the outcome of those limitations in the worlds of men, they care

not at all. For the world is an illusion to them, a place of horrors and joys

quickly passed, ephemeral and unreal. Tis all a stage to them, and the

men and women only players; they know that when the players remove

their masks and exit the stage, then is the play seen for what it was, andthe great trials of life are dismissed as a momentary dream.

"Now, you could penetrate further into this place, but it seems not

necessary at this time. Come again when you will, or go on to another

region. Fare you well."

The sense of the voice's presence faded. The image of the Six of

Pentacles remained for a time, then it too faded. I left the vision.

Seer's comments:

According to the system I was directed to use for these visions, theZodiacal King ruling Doagnis is attributed to Libra. The overall sense of the

vision, however, was more Saturnian. The hole, cylinder, and rectilinear

designs of the early part are all related to that planet, as are the general

themes of Time and imposed order.

Even when Libra does appear, in the ideas of balance and justice, it is a

lesser or degenerate form of the sign's ideal. Justice is not seen as a

balancing of injury and compensation, or of mediation between conflicting

goals, but simply as selective restriction on the individual expressionspossible in nature. The consequence of such a view is often extreme

injustice.

The three regions of LIL shown in previous visions all had something to do

with the theme of "failure of government", consequent upon the fall from

the unity of pure divinity. Perhaps it is not so surprising that this first

region of ARN should go to the opposite extreme, seeking to impose an

artificial unity (as represented by the rectilinear grid) as a substitute for the

real thing.The justice and order shown here is the false justice of the religious or

political fanatic, the person who fears the unspeakable variety of

existence, and therefor seeks to restrict it to "safe" or "correct"

manifestations. It is the order of the person who mistakes his own

internally generated image of god for god itself, who mistakes his own

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limited perceptions for those of god, and seeks to impose them on all

others.

Compare the justifications following the appearance of the Six of

Pentacles with those of any idealist, revolutionary or religious politician.

Like those people, the beings here justify their cruelties in the real worldby claiming to follow a "higher purpose", saying that the miseries they

force on their fellow beings are necessary to promote the higher good.

Like the Voice of this vision, they even lay the blame for it on those they

oppress, saying "It's all their fault if they can't see the Great Purpose."

Pacasna, part #5, 2nd of ARN, ARN. Zodiacal King: ZIRACAH Ministers:

2362 Mundane region: Tuscia

Thursday, August 25, 1994 3:05 PM

As soon as I thought about doing this vision, my head was filled with light,

of an odd quality. The old sci-fi hack's term "sleeting radiation" seemed

perfectly appropriate. It felt like my head was being irradiated by some

point-source that just happened to be coincide with its center, but was inno way directly connected with it. The radiation gave the impression of

packets of energy that zapped outwards from the source, each leaving

behind a streak of energized paths in the neurons of the brain. Each

streak produced a sense of bubbling energy in the brain.

I vibrated the Call and appropriate names, and recorded the above

paragraph.

After vibrating the names for several minutes more, a space started to

appear. Rather than appearing and then remaining steady, it wouldbecome visible for a moment, then it would disappear again, then

reappear. Rather like watching a movie with a pause between frames. The

space did not seem to exist when not visible; there was no sense that

events there had advanced any in the time between appearances.

Finally the appearance steadied. But the situation was not entirely

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improved thereby; now it seemed as if the space had two aspects, which I

was viewing simultaneously.

In one of these views, I saw many people dressed in violet-colored robes

with trim in the complementary yellow. Each carried some sort of box held

before him. The boxes were decorated with ribbons of many colors, whichdrifted and waved about as they moved. I got the sense that the boxes

held holy relics of some sort, or were themselves relics. Each of these

people moved on a unique path through space, never touching or colliding

with others.

As they moved, one or another of them would sing a note. And as that

note reached the ears of certain others, they would in turn sing -- usually a

different note, but one in the same key. Only a few responded to any

particular note, but all of them were responding to some note within anyshort period of time. The overall effect was of a light rain in which the

landing of every drop produced a different tone.

It also seemed that every time one of them sounded a note, the ribbons

on the boxes they held extended a bit further out into the surrounding

space, each ribbon still waving in invisible currents. Eventually the entire

space was filled with crisscrossing ribbons, practically obscuring their

origins.

The other view was less striking. Balls of light moved on slow orbital pathsthrough the space. Occasionally one would throw out a smaller bit of light,

which would move along until it hit another large ball. The receiving ball

would momentarily brighten and expand its diameter; after an irregular

period of time it would in turn throw out a smaller ball of light, at the same

time dimming and becoming smaller.

Turning back to the first view, I examined the boxes more closely. Each

was made of square panels with smooth square borders covering about

one-sixth of their width. The center of each panel, each side, was filledwith intricate carvings in every imaginable style and subject-matter. The

carvings moved as I watched, so that the pictures unfolded their stories.

The movements went in jerks -- a change, then a short wait, another

change, and so on.

E.g., in one showing a mass of ivy, the vines would slowly move and

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sprout new leaves, live a time-lapse image of plant growth. In another a

macabre scene showed a woman being slowly burned at the stake while

peasants and a demon in priests robes watched, danced, and talked

among themselves. In another a composer slowly set notes of a score

onto paper. I had the impression that if I looked long enough I could findthe whole world's history and human activity represented in the sides of

these many boxes.

But at the same time I sensed that these scenes were superficial. They did

not in any way reflect the contents of the boxes; they were all "outside"

and no "inside".

Examining the interior of one box I found -- more boxes. Each was like the

one that contained it, in that it had ribbons waving about it and panels with

pictures. It seemed that each of the major boxes contained its ownuniverse of smaller boxes, and possibly each of these in turn contained its

own internal universe. And if I suppressed knowledge of the enclosing level

of boxes for a moment, it seemed that these smaller boxes connected not

only with those in their own "universe" but as well with those in every other.

I began to weary of looking at this Chinese-puzzle world, and thought it

was time for the Voice to come and make some explanation of things.

After a few moments, it did so.

"You have already recognized the essence of this vision, and I will leave itto you to explain in your notes. Let us touch upon some other concerns at

this time.

"The boxes are, as you guessed, entities of some sort or another; not

always, or even usually, human, but organizations of matter into complex

forms. Any of the kingdoms of nature might be represented, or any of

many other unrecognized systems.

"Each such entity carries with it not only the behavior it presents to the

world (in the form of the pictures) but also its own complete history ofexistence, and [emphasized] the history of every component that went into

its making, back to the very beginnings of things. And each of these

components continues to interact with the rest of the universe in its own

terms, even as it acts as a part of the larger whole. This is the true living

order of existence, as opposed to the sterile, dead order of the previous

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vision. Explain the rest as you will; it is no great difficulty for you.

"Now, what I intended to remark upon was the manner in which you might

progress further in your understanding of the Enochian universe and its

god. This is a matter not entirely related to these visions of the Parts, and

so should not be done by me. Bide a moment and another will come andtell you."

I waited. After several minutes there were brief shadowy images of a

figure standing before me. Nothing more happened, so I got up and went

to the bathroom, then sat on my bed and meditated for a while.

There was a feeling that I needed to be in a different space in order to

understand what was coming. Reaching out to sense that space, I tried to

discard the power of the Part and adopt the new one.

Shortly I had a brief sight of the Comselha circle, as seen from highabove. As described elsewhere, I noted a toroidal field of force around it,

with a beam projecting upwards from the hollow center. I felt myself drawn

into this beam. Gradually it drew me upwards until I was within sight of the

interstellar nexus being built on the edge of the Earth's aura.

I noted that it's construction seemed to be coming along well. Only a

couple of unincorporated sections remained at a distance from the main

structure, and that structure was solidly anchored by heavy beams

directed at nearby stars and the Earth.The core levels appeared to be completely finished; I could see no gaps in

the sphere. A larger surrounding sphere was almost complete; I sensed

that several individual lines of force still needed to be anchored.

Moving into the center of the sphere, I saw a glyph high up on one wall. I

could not see it clearly, but it appeared to be a cross between the Hindu

OM and the glyph of Capricorn. Perhaps this was a designator for stars or

constellations in that direction? Other glyphs also appeared, but even

more difficult to see, as if as yet their force had not be completely set inplace here.

Sunday, August 28, 1994 1:03 PM

For some reason, I wasn't very happy with the vision of Pacasna, and

decided to do it again, just to see if anything else could be seen.

Vibrated the Call twice, vibrating the name of the Aethyr a few times in

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between. Called upon Ziracah to direct the ministers dwelling in Pacasna

to come to my aid and demonstrate the power of their part of the Earth.

Almost immediately I got the same sense of "bubbling energy" the opened

the previous vision. No images appeared, but I started getting intuitions

about the Parts.It occurred to me that these first two parts of ARN represent, in an odd

way, the "mother" and "father" aspects of existence. Doagnis placed a

heavy emphasis on Time and Regulated Motion as the sources of Order.

Pacasna places the emphasis on Energy and Innate Relationship as a sort

of non-imposed order, with an added fillip of Unpredictability. So their

essential natures are contrary.

It also occurred to me that Doagnis places more emphasis on the

influence of the "higher" worlds, represented by the astrological forces,where events are collected into a sort of synthesis by their relationship to

those forces. Whereas Pacasna places emphasis on the seemingly

chaotic manifestation of events within the "lower" worlds, where the unique

natures of things have their expression -- as represented by the highly

varied pictures that appeared on the sides of the boxes. (Note that the

boxes are all "outside" and no "inside", as might be said of manifestations

in Malkuth as the world of shells. Thus the duality of the two parts is

shown again, and the theme of Division common to the Parts in LIL iscontinued as an unspoken background.

One might also contrast the two as representing respectively the

relativistic and the quantum mechanical views of reality. The events in

Doagnis occurred in smooth, continuous changes of state; events in

Pacasna occurred in discrete "jumps".

And again, in Doagnis there is a definite hierarchy of above and below. In

Pacasna hierarchy is a matter of arbitrary viewpoint; events on all levels

are essentially similar, and take place at the same time, with no way to tellwhich level of events is causative or most significant.

I also get the impression that the three Parts in ARN are in mirror

sequence to those of LIL. Where in LIL the order goes 1-2-3, in ARN it

goes 6-5-4. Thus I am doing the Parts in backwards order, as far as their

interrelationship goes. It may be that this is the reason for my sense of

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dissatisfaction with the visions; I am seeing the end before the beginning.

Having received these intuitions, the energy of the Part lapsed, and I

stopped attempting to receive more.

Dialioa, sixth of 91 Parts of the Earth, third of ARN. Zodiacal king: Ziracah

Ministers: 8962 Derived from the Water Tablet. Mundane association: Asia

Minor.

Monday, August 29, 1994 2:10 p.m.

Vibrated the Call and the appropriate names.

I first saw the sigil of the Part drawn within a circle on the ground. The

name of the Part was written in both Enochian and English letters in a

border around the circumference, so that the whole had the appearance

of a simple talisman.

Next a woman appeared within the circle. She had blonde hair and her

face was hidden behind it. She was crouched down on her right knee, her

right hand on the ground. Her left arm was raised and bent back as if she

was trying to remove something from the back of her neck. She wore a

she wore a white summer dress of some light fabric.

Her posture reminded me of the Crowley's Tarot card "The Star". But even

more, it recalled one of Rodin's more striking sculptures, called (I believe)

"The Helmet-maker's Beautiful Wife". The sculpture shows a crone in a

similar posture, and carries a tremendous freight of sorrow for lost things.

The figure in the circle sends forth a sense of great sorrow, and of being

one on whom an unbearable load has been placed. (I am reminded as well

of another sculpture, I think also by Rodin, called "Caryatid Fallen Under

Her Stone".)

Now the figure before me cries: "Woe! Woe! And again Woe! I am beset by

those above me and those below. The ones above me seek to bind me to

them in unity; those below seek to disperse me into chaos. Yet in myself I

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am neither one nor many, and their pressure wearies my soul to death.

How shall I escape these evils?"

An angel comes forward from the upper right of my field of view, dressed

in violet robes. It pulls the figure out of the circle, and takes its place in

the same posture. After a few moments it hardens into stone, or forms ashell of stone in its own shape, to take the load. The angel then leaves this

stone figure like a ghost leaving the body, and stands beside the circle

with the original occupant, who is now clearly a young woman of an airy

nature.

The angel makes a sign like alchemical sulfur towards me, apparently

expecting it to be returned; I do so. Then another sign like the "V" of LVX,

but the impression is of a descending triangle over a cross. Again I return

it.The angel turns to the woman, and performs a series of gestures I don't

recognize. But I know as they are done that they spell LILITH, followed by

a gesture of releasing.

As the gestures are completed, the woman goes through an astonishing

number of transformations in an instant, becoming many different women

in turn. Without, seemingly, changing her essential nature. Finally she turns

into a woman of some non-Semitic Middle Eastern race; long wavy black

hair, dark eyes, olive skin, in the skirt-and-girdle outfit seen in somepictures of ancient priestesses. Snakes appear, curled around her wrists.

Then she vanishes, absorbed into the fabric of space itself.

"Know" the angel said, "that all acts of creation act upon a pre-existing

substance." Answering a question in my mind he said, "There was no first

act of creation; all has ever been in process. And this substance precedes

even that process. None of any level of reality know its origins or destiny.

"This substance, protean, ever-changing, livingness itself, is that out of

which all creations come. Binah is its reflection in our world, though itsurpasses Binah in all ways, and surpasses the Wheel and the Point as

well. And here it is reflected again in the substance of the Aethyrs, as it

must be in any of its children.

"You will see her anon in other Parts, as she takes on other roles with

respect to this creation. But in this place, as you have sensed, she is

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acted upon by the force of the other two parts within ARN, as the

substance upon which each seeks to impose its form of order within the

world. And so she was first seen as placed under a burden, as the

pressure of one and the other sought to mold her into their preferred

form."But in her essence she is above both, contains both, and cannot be so

limited. And the action of those Parts causes to be formed instead an

image, an illusory construct (of a lesser order of existence) which fulfills

their intent.

"Now the previous two Parts represent, each in their way, the primary

themes of the substance aspect of existence within this world. [The word

"substance" was emphasized.] On the one hand, smooth motion, cyclic

appearances, direct causation and spiral progressions; on the other hand,sudden jumps, indeterminacy, acausal relationship, and dynamic, mutually

affective interactions.

"The lesser cannot contain the greater, and so their action is futile in the

extreme; certainly no great part of the divine substance shall be formed to

their will. They cannot even contact it in its essence, for their level is not

high enough. But part of its manifestation [emphasized], the product of

previous cycles of creation, is amenable to their intent, and visible to their

eyes. And this portion they take for the whole, and press upon."And in the process they summon, for a time, by its intrinsic connection

with Her, something of the true substance. This gives new life to the old

manifestation, allowing it to mutate and change in accordance with their

will, taking on the desired characteristics without losing anything of its

past history. It groans like a living thing under the burden of their will, until

it is changed and the changes established as a permanent nature.

"The task being complete, the summoned portion of the divine woman's

power is released, and the manifest substance goes more or less its ownway, in response to the subsequent promptings of the creators involved.

The direct activity of the higher substance lapses, and whatever portion of

its livingness was involved returns into itself.

"It is in this releasing process that we ministers of Dialioa have our work.

Our task is to ensure that the higher substance does not remain, for to do

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so would be to give greater weight to the actions upon its manifestation

than is desirable. There would be a continuing impression of the will upon

the substance aspect.

"This is a subtle thing, but must be understood. The substance forms the

base of a creation, and has certain characteristics inherent as a part ofthat creation. But the purpose of the creative act, the goal of the creator's

impulse, grows out of the substance along another, different dimension. It

is an overlay upon the substance, not an inherent part of it.

"To understand this, consider that the image in a painting, and the

emotional, mental, and spiritual expressions built into the image, are not

inherent in the paint which the artist used. The pigments have certain

qualities, yes, but they are merely raw stuff of making, and it is only in

their artful combination that the higher purpose is revealed. That purposeis never apparent to the consciousness of the atoms in the paint, but only

to creatures of the same or higher type than the creator. It simply does

not exist in the paint itself.

"Thus also with the manifest portion of the divine woman's substance. If

her essence were to remain in the manifest substance beyond the time

when it has been prepared as the raw material of a creative act, then the

material would attempt to respond to the higher purpose of the creator,

and attempt to build that purpose into itself. This is not desirable, for if itattuned to one stage of the creative act, then it could not properly

respond to the later stages.

"It would be as if a glob of red paint became infused with an indelible

quality of "violence", so that it could never be used except in paintings of a

violent nature. Were the artist to attempt to use it to paint, say, a rose in

the hand of a young girl as an expression of innocent appreciation of

beauty, then the violence of the paint would send the artist's intent awry.

The artist wishes his material to have just those generic qualities thatmake it widely useful, and no more."

Here a pause of a few minutes.

"Now is this woman, this Lilith who takes all things into herself and gives

them substance, too much to be known within a single Part -- or even

within a single Aethyr. The Pan behind Pan is she; he is a silly country

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bumpkin by comparison. Nuit she is, and Babalon of the Thelemites, and

many others; and none of these images touch even the hem of her

garment. The entire universe descends out of her womb, yet she is not

stretched or strained thereby. Time before time, Space before space,

being that precedes all being is she. One Mother to whom the manyFathers apply themselves, she remains yet virgin. No one truly knows her,

yet all descends from her, is contained in her, all is maintained out of her

life.

"Endless -- literally endless -- superlatives could be applied to her, and

leave none the wiser. Therefore will we cease. But she will come again, in

many forms, as we continue this path of the Parts. And she will come to

you again in time, as she has in past times.

"We are done."Seer's comments:

The appearance of Lilith in this vision struck me as familiar, so I dug out

my copy of Vision and the Voice and re-read the section for ARN. There

are some general similarities of symbol, despite a contrast in the details.

My own symbol-set is substantially different from Crowley's, and this of

course affects the results. As well, A.C. was working his way up through

the Aethyrs, trying to force a return to unity against the general flow of

their force. Here we are working from top to bottom, in line with the flow.The zodiacal king ruling this Part is again Ziracah, Aquarius. Thus the

opening image reflects the Water-Bearer of the Tarot card. But there is a

strong Saturnian element in the aura of burden, oppression, and sorrow

that surrounds her, and this expands into a more general Binah nature.

The cry of the figure supports this position; "those above" are Kether and

Chokmah, whose force descends and gives form to the unconditioned

primal substance of Binah. "Those below" represent the dispersal of the

Abyss, and the transformation from transcendental wholeness into themyriad of finite events that make up existence in the lower,

non-transcendental spheres. She is neither one nor many because the

distinguishing characteristic of the primal substance is its total lackof

distinguishing characteristics. It is NOT anything that can be

comprehended or imagined by a finite consciousness.

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Finally a minister of the Part appears and (being like in nature to the Part)

takes the place of the woman for the completion of the transformation into

finite form. Just as the Saturn aspect represents a minor and lesser part

of Binah. The creation of a finite form having been completed, the angel

releases the remaining substance back into its transcendental state byinvoking the yet higher state of which it is a reflection.

My own conception of Lilith comes from the goddess-religions of the age

of Taurus; she has nothing of the demonic aspects added by the

male-oriented cultures of the following Aries age and perpetuated by the

fears of the Piscean age. She is an aspect of Innana or Ishtar as

All-goddess, specifically the starry night-sky, as her name LIL-ITh might be

translated as "night's essence". The last form she takes in the vision

before vanishing is the form of that goddess. This same form appeared inCrowley's vision, but he interpreted it in terms of the corrupted tale of Eve

and the Serpent.

The function of the priestess of Lilith was to attract men to the temple for

the performance of the sacred rites. In Thelemic terms, she is the

priestess calling "To me! To me!" And each woman, in her initiation into the

temple, took on the role of Lilith with some man, invoking her "under her

stars", becoming the goddess for a period of time. Any child issuing from

such union was considered a child of the goddess and some god, not ofthe human bodies through whom the act was performed.

In the higher aspect represented here, she is the primordial "stuff" out of

which all creative entities form their creations. The creative, "male"

counterparts are the multiple entities of the region Pacasna, a multitude of

Hadits to her Nuit. To make the connection between Lilith and Nuit even

firmer, the former name might be interpreted as LI-LITh. "LI" means "To

me" or "unto me", the call of Nuit; LITh means "none", Nuit's nature.

The remainder of the vision deals with aspects of the divine creativeprocess, and is best understood through meditation. I believe that the

overall nature of this Part can be summarized as concretion of essence

followed by release of any excess essence.

This completes the regions of the Aethyr ARN.

It has occurred to me while re-reading the visions that there is some

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connection with Achad's Tree being developed here. The visions of LIL

might represent the descent of the creative force from Kether to

Chokmah, via the path of Jupiter. Thus representing the initial imbalance

that results from movement away from the Still Point.

The first region of ARN, with its heavy Saturnian flavor, is the secondarydescent from Kether to Binah, via the path of Saturn. Note the

resemblance between the "grid" of that vision, and the grid surrounding

the hermaphrodite in Crowley's version of the card, or the bindings of the

wreath around the herm in other versions.

The second region of ARN, strongly Aquarian-Uranian, would then

represent the passing of the male creative power from Chokmah into

Binah via the path of Aquarius. The final region is Binah itself, the

primordial stuff reflected into the lesser area of creation that is the Earth.Obviously, with 91 Parts there is going to be a lot of overlap somewhere

along the way, in any correlation between them and the Tree. It seems

more likely to me that the Parts will only occasionally become congruent

with the Tree, and that the rest of the time they will touch on things

outside that matrix.

Samapha, number 7 of 91 Parts, first of ZOM. Zodiacal King: Zarzilg.

Ministers: 4400. Mundane association: Hyrcania (NE Iran, on shore of the

Caspian Sea).

Thursday, September 01, 1994 3:29 PM

Vibrated the Call and invoked the names as usual.

The sigil of the Part stood before in vision for a time; an air of aggressivepresence radiated from it. I absorbed some of this radiance into myself,

and as I did so began to see into another space behind it.

The second space was filled with light of a bright, electric-green color, just

slightly greener than Mt. Dew soft drink. Within it were tiny flakes of

another shade of green, also electric, so that the overall effect was of a

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liquid with particles suspended in it.

Nothing happened for a time, and my thoughts drifted off into things I

might add to the book. After a brief time my attention returned, and I

noted that my astral body felt as if it were occupying the same place as

the sigil. Gradually the viewpoint drifted forward through the sigil. Turning,I saw it as a gate into the space where I now stood. My viewpoint was now

split in two, half continuing to see the green space, the other half in

whatever place the gate of the sigil led to.

I vibrated the name of the Part for several minutes. Nothing more

happened. Finally I gave up on trying to get the Part to manifest as a

vision, and tried instead to simply get its energies to come into my body. I

withdrew all my attention into my body and reoriented to this new purpose.

The effect was immediate and overwhelming. I was hit with a flow of forcethat threatened to dissolve my awareness into a swirl of particles and blow

it away. For a few moments I was so disoriented that I almost fell out of

my chair.

Leaning back and closing my eyes, I tried to relax my magickal body to

accept the forces. For several minutes there was chaos; the force, like an

abrasive wind, whipped away parts of myself that were not in tune with it,

stripping off parts that were attuned to lower levels of reality and leaving

behind only their higher-plane equivalents.Finally the worst of it was over and I began to see clearly again. It was

apparent that on some level everything removable had been stripped away

from me, leaving only a skeletal structure of adamantine hardness. There

did not seem to be any pattern or balance to what remained; it was simply

composed of those parts of my structure too tough to be affected; within

my aura they formed a structure as random and jagged as the casting of

a deep-sea worm.

The force continued to flow, and it became apparent that these remainingparts were in some way either restricting that flow, or casting a shadow

such that I could not see this Part clearly. Perhaps both. Worse, it was

clear that the very mind-set necessary to my visionary work was itself

adding to the restriction; perhaps my nature as a being was simply

incompatible with the forces here.

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This constricting feeling became stronger. I assumed the asana called

"The God" in the hope that this would allow a freer flow. It did not. Physical

symptoms began to appear -- shortness of breath, feelings of constriction

from my clothes, wristwatch, and glasses. After several more minutes I

got up, stripped off all of it, and sat on my bed in half-lotus. This eased thephysical sensations (but did not completely erase them) and I could give

my attention fully to adjusting to the force.

For the next half-hour I gave my attention to deliberately relaxing the parts

of myself that were resisting, one by one. Eventually I had to stop from

exhaustion; the work was that hard, and remained incomplete. I lay down

and drifted in a half-trance for a while, then got up and completed this

record.

I am tempted to skip this Part and go on, but I resolved at the beginning todo them in order, and it seems best to continue, despite the difficulties. I

would guess that it will take at least two more sessions before I can

penetrate into the Part fully.

Friday, September 02, 1994 1:17 PM

Vibrated the Call and appropriate names as usual.

Upon vibrating the name Samapha, I became filled with an energy much

like yesterday's; power with a very high vibration rate, which tended to

throw off anything it contacted that was not of a compatible nature. Whilestill completely in my body, it seemed that this power had somehow cast

off parts of my aura, leaving behind structures similar in function but of a

much higher quality. There was also a sensation of heat distributed

throughout my body, but particularly noticeable on the insides of the

thighs and calves.

Turning my vision to the astral level, the first thing I saw was an image of

the Tarot card "The Lovers". This lasted only an instant; a third figure was

added between the man and woman, and the background transformeduntil it was the card "Judgment". Specifically, the version seen in Wang's

G.D. deck. The angel was within a white triangle surrounded by a circle

formed from the Great Serpent.

(I suddenly understood that the green field that opened yesterday's vision

was in the flashing colors of fire. The electric green would flash with red,

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and the darker green flakes would flash with scarlet.)

Now a voice said: "Judgment has come; but what is it that is to be judged?

A man? No. A demon? No. Only that which is of the nature of the Fire can

pass through the Fire. As it is said: ultimate sparks of intimate fire.

"That which is of the Earth is not of us; nor that of the Sun, nor that of theRealms of Death and Destruction; we are wholly within the highest. Power

is ours; power to create the world, power to destroy it again. We are the

essence of the divine creative will, personified and made manifest. We

descend from on high, and that which we touch is burned to ash, burned

to make way for that which is to come, in glory, from the all-highest.

"And shall you pass us, O man? Not at this time; we speak not for the

future.

"We descend from on high, and everything before us is laid waste. Thegardens of Isis are desiccated and burned. The might of Horus is laid low.

The dissolving seas of Set are evaporated into steam, which rises up into

the sky and disperses. The realms of Thoth survive, but are transformd;

only glittering crystalline threads remain where once were living thoughts

of the purpose of god.

"Call us the Teeth of the Serpent. For as the Serpent rises up the Tree, so

his head is in Kether, and his teeth clasp the Still Point. There is nothing

manifest that is closer to that point than we; for even though our Path isnot the first, yet our nature is not changed from the Point, while those that

descend to the left and to the right do deviate in nature from the essence.

Being of the path of balance, we retain its nature."

(The vision had a tendency to dissolve back into pure power, and this

power kept building up in my magickal body. I could not sit still, and went

outside to sit on the grass for a time, hoping the plants' vibrations would

cool me off a bit. Seemed to work.)

"Now, the Serpent of the Tarot card is not the serpent who climbs theTree. The former has his tail in realms beyond this world; and in wrapping

himself about the Still Point he becomes a sphere of sevenfold vibrations

radiating therefrom.

"And so are we, though wholly of this world, the reflection of events

beyond. As was the goddess of the previous vision.

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"Where she was the reflection of the ineffable substance from which all

things come, so are we the reflecting of that which stimulates things to

come out of her. We are the serpents who wrap themselves around her

outstretched arms. The dual helical coilings they show are the nature of

our motion; spiraling down into the lower worlds, yet balanced because weturn in both directions at once. And this is the swirling power that you felt

yesterday, stripping off the dross from your magickal bodies, leaving

behind only a pattern of god-stuff, for a time.

(Brief pause here.)

"There are other aspects of this Fire that descends from Kether; it takes

on other forms as it passes through the so-called Abyss, and as it

approaches Tiphereth below. That which destroys when confronted in its

essence can be the support of being when diluted. And the key to thevibrations that make up the worlds; the sevenfold vibration of the Great

Serpent is reflected in the sevenfold nature of the lower worlds.

"But these aspects are taken by others; we ourselves are not the ministers

thereof, but only of the destruction manifested of pure divine will. Therefor

is our number 4400; the number of Fire and blood and sparks, but writ

large in the sky by the will of god.

"Take you of our essence, o man."

The visual aspect had faded while the voice spoke. Now a cup of whitegold appeared before me, upon which was raised the image of the

Greater Countenance enclosed in a triangle, which was enclosed by the

circle of the Great Serpent. (Yet it seemed that the Countenance was

somehow greater than that which enclosed it.) The cup was surrounded by

an aura, again of glowing white.

I took the cup in my hands, and they seemed stripped of solidity, so that

from halfway up my forearms there were only the ghosts of hands to be

seen. I could not feel the cup, but only a vibrating numbness.For some reason I did not drink, as is the usual custom in such instances.

Instead I raised the cup above my head and brought it downwards through

my body from head to toe. When it reached the bottom there was an

upwards pull; I moved it until the hollow of the cup was congruent with my

heart, where the pull stopped. I released the cup and it gradually

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dissolved, releasing its fire into the magickal body.

"We prepare you for that which is to come. As you continue in these

visions you will find our power of use; perhaps not in any obvious fashion,

but as support and sustenance when none other is available.

"For now, continue as you have. You shall know when the time is right foreach vision. Do not seek to push too hard, do not be in too much of a

hurry. For the absorption of that which is gained shall make each further

step easier.

"For now, farewell."

The energy of the Part remained, but the sense of contact ended. And so I

closed the vision and returned fully to my body.

Seer's comments:

The connection to Achad's Tree hinted at in previous visions is here madeovert. In that Tree, the path of Fire connects Kether with Tiphereth. So

these visions have so far covered all the paths that descend from Kether,

plus the reciprocal path of Aquarius between Chokmah and Binah.

The aspect of Fire dealt with here is entirely transcendental. As the

minister indicated, there are two other aspects of this path that will be

dealt with elsewhere. The ministers describe themselves in various

cabalistic ways, explained in the following footnotes where they are not

obvious. All of these indicate that the ministers represent the firstextension of the divine will into the Pillar of Balance. They are not Kether

itself, but are as close to it as it is possible for a manifest being to come.

Beyond this they hint at connections to realms transcending even the

Supernal Triad, as the complement to the Goddess of the previous Part.

The Sumerian theme is continued by relating them to the Serpents on the

arms of that Goddess. Why they should use this ancient form is not

known. I would think that the modern Nuit and Hadit, with which I am much

more familiar, would be a better choice; especially considering the otherreferences to Liber AL. But their connection with Hadit is only hinted at,

subsumed into the older version.

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Virooli, part 8 of 91, second of ZOM. Zodiacal King: Alpudus Ministers:

3660 Mundane association: Thracia (European Turkey, Eastern Greece)Sunday, September 04, 1994 1:35 PM

Vibrated the Call of the Aethyrs and the appropriate names as usual.

The first image was of a man in bronze-age armor walking from

downstage right to upstage left. He wore greaves, cuirass, helmet and

arm guards, all finely detailed with images of martial scenes. At his left hip

he wore a bronze shortsword. In the background I could hear sounds of

many men marching in order.

Gradually this image was overlaid and supplanted by an image of the Tarotcard "The Tower". Particular attention was somehow called to the gap

between the crown and the top of the tower, at the point where the

lightning strikes it.

A voice said: "How shall the power of the Mother be transmitted into the

lands of the Son? Shall it be as a torrent of water raging in a stream bed?

No. Shall it be as mighty winds hurling objects about? No. Shall it be as an

hundred mighty earthquakes that shake the world? Perhaps, but not at this

point. No. It shall be as a stroke of lightning which burns the mortar of hiscastle to a dust of lime, and loosens the connections between the stones.

"For was it not said to you, Our god is a god of terror and wonder? Was it

not said to you that he shall destroy your dwelling places and make of

them a place for the beasts of the field? He shall stretch your souls to

bursting, tear the seams and threads that hold them together."

(While this was said I was flashing on my own thoughts on this matter,

explained in substantial detail in the paper Divine Creation and Initiation

and somewhat in The New Aeon.)"What shall be said of this place, o man, that you have not already

understood to the roots of your being? For you have gone through this

process times without number, and known the terror of its inception and

the wonders that lie at its end. Is it not so?"

I said yes, it was.

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"Just so. And in the ending of the life of man the life of god begins; there is

no gap between, simply blindness and unwillingness to look.

"Now to explain briefly to those who might read: The Tower is the Mind of

Man, the Ruach, which comprises all that he is as an individual. It begins

deep in the Earth and is built by the powers arising in the lesser sea, theroots of emotions in Man. These are the urges of the physical organism to

survive, and grow.

"Very deep are these urges; they originate in the cellular level and so are

carried up through all the levels of organization within the living finite

being. The cells have an intrinsic urge to coordinate and compete with

each other to form organs and bodies. Similarly, after many intermediate

levels, the various specialized parts of the mind have the urge to form a

complete self-aware mental being out of their disparate functions andpurposes.

"The process of initiation carries this further; through conscious effort and

direction, the mental being so produced in turn increases the coordination

and linkages between the parts that created it. This is the prime function

of the Adept.

"The end-result of this process of coordination is a being whose entire

finite existence is closely tied together into a single functioning unit. This is

the Tower as we speak of it here.At this point I felt we were getting distracted from the essence of the

matter, and cut off the vision for now.

Monday, September 05, 1994

I seem to be having the opposite problem with this part than I had with the

immediately previous one. There I had trouble entering; here, I am so

thoroughly familiar with the effects of the Part's power, and have

internalized it to such a degree, that the power tends to follow the existing

paths in myself rather than forge new ones. I recognized the process ofthe Part instantly, and my recognition pulled the presentation into

established lines of thought. I felt that there was no point in allowing the

Voice to rehash things I could explain better myself.

Everything that exists consists of many lesser parts in a relationship to

one another. In simple physical objects the relationships tend to be

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relatively static. In living beings the relationships

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